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Lot 3457 SESSION 12 (11.30AM THURSDAY 19TH APRIL) Documents
Estimate $250
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MERCHANT NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON, cheque no.769 dated January 6, 1873 for Twenty thousand dollars, made out and signed personally by T.Jefferson Coolidge for Lawrence Man'g Co., stamped on back, 'Pay through Boston Clearing House Jan 7 1873, printed by Hooper, Lewis & Co. Boston. Cancellation hole in centre and pin holes, some small loss of paper at edges, otherwise crisp extremely fine.
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (1831-1920) was a descendent of the 1630 Merchant class of Boston and Thomas Jefferson, the United States' 2nd President and writer of the Declaration of Independence. He was also related to US President Calvin Coolidge and a director of the largest textile mill in the world at the time and then at Lawrence Manufacturing Co.
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